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  1. ZOMG! ineffective legislation by congresscrittirs on Patent Reform Bill Unable To Clean Up Patent Mess · · Score: 1

    Filled with pork, unrelated funding requirement and special interest exceptions the bill fails completely to provide any relief to the American citizenry from an unstemmable flood of "with a computer" patent applications.

  2. what the Whitehouse doing on White House Email Follies · · Score: 1

    Though I wonder what the Whitehouse doing to take up that much space.
    Signing statements http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statement
  3. Re:Who is John Doerr? on Apple Targeting Business World for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Doesn't he make tractors?
    Well, not him personally.
  4. 150 channels and nuthin on on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Did not see a single thing of sufficent interest to even warrent following the link.

  5. only $40 on Hardware Based OpenID Service Available · · Score: 1

    Why is it they always neglect to mention how much they want to suck out of your pocket for their "latest achievement". Also beware, using the site requires you to trust their marketing droids to code java securely in order to get any details. I see nothing on the page that requires anything more complicated than standard HTML with hyper-links.

  6. Where's the progit in copyrighting tops? on US Group Calls Canada a Top Copyright Violator · · Score: 1

    Who still copyrights tops in this day and age? Might as well copyright a new buggy whip owners manual.

  7. Re:My favorite Vista rant... on Hostile ta Vista, Baby · · Score: 1

    Old is not necessarily good, new is not necessarily better. MEsta's radical behavioral and organizational paradigm shifts are, by and large, merely changes and NOT improvements. The telling point is that these "features" are implemented so poorly. It will be interesting to see if SP1 is less boneheaded, I don't hold out much hope as it appears MS QA only tests the default install so they can leave promply at 5 (or whatever the end of day is in India). The GP has it much closer to right than the parent.

  8. Now I can get ... on Femtosecond Lasers Used To Color Metals · · Score: 0

    Maaco to turn my DeLorean fluorescent blue.

  9. It's not information ... on What's Wrong With the TV News · · Score: 1

    It's not even data, it's NEWS. Useless for any practical purposes.

  10. Wy watch overpaid ignoramouses excercise? on NCAA Puts Severe Limits On Sport Event Blogging · · Score: 1

    It's bad enough to flush 2-4hrs of your life down the toilet sitting in an armchair entranced by Hi-Def beads of sweat. The laughable part is paying multiple 100's of dollars to corporations that have little to no interest in treating anyone fairly for the "privilege". Not that the players are paragons of virtue. A pox upon them all.

  11. sheep on Amazon Patents Bad Service For Bad Customers · · Score: 2, Funny

    be a sheep and follow the herd
    Always safer to hide amongst the elk or elephants, they are much more capable of mounting a defense. Hanging around a flock can be shear ;) horror.
  12. Re:Bogus estimate of amount of Video creation? on Study Warns of Internet Brownouts By 2010 · · Score: 1

    If you saw our SMTP logs of all the rumpelstiltskin address knocking, you'd find 161 exabytes totally believable.

  13. Error message pet peeve on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    "File not found" and not providing the path that failed.
    WTF, they just passed the string to the file open call, what's so hard about passing it back to the user?

  14. Re:imagine you are a game maker on Congress Pressures DoJ With PIRATE Part II · · Score: 1

    I dunno, http://www.stardock.com/ http://www.galciv.com/ seems to be doing all right over the decades without Digital Rectal Manacles or rootkit copy protection that the MAFIAA asstunnels insist are needed.

  15. Re:Martin Short... on A Panoramic View of Your Insides · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, references to "Fantastic Voyage" triggers memories of Raquel Welch for me, far more entertaining imagery.
    Could be worse, I guess, might have brought synthesized imagery of Isaac Asimov in a white jumpsuit.

  16. Piers Anthony's "Omnivore" series? on Joss Whedon Back on TV · · Score: 1

    I am surprised that no one has mentioned the similarity to the "Agents" presented in that trilogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Man_and_Manta.

  17. you have to do quite a few stupid things on Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan · · Score: 1

    1) give money to Apple
    2) cluelessly download a new codec
    3) ????
    4) get pwned

  18. Re:$240 PC at Newegg.com on $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart · · Score: 1

    Actually $264 with cheapest shipping.

  19. Re:Anesthesia notes on Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds · · Score: 1

    Do you have any URLS on the protein or research you mentioned?

  20. Re:Every job I've worked.... on What NASA Won't Tell You About Air Safety · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention that decisions are made and priorities are assigned by technically clueless bean-counters and marktedroids.

  21. Obligatory on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: 1
    MS is attempting a stealth upgrade to v7.uh-oh
    Cancel or Panic?
  22. Re:Worst case scenario IS the best case scenario? on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 1

    Even better, it costs Canonical to ship the disks, resulting in a negative profit so the patent holders should pay Canonical.

  23. Re:25 computers on Churches Use Halo To Spread the Word, Raise Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    I would think that if an omnipotent god really loved and cared in the manner you speak, she would not have to have to use fallible zealots to impart the fact, it would be intuitively obvious and intermediaries, acting like a car salesman going to "talk to the manager" to clear the deal, would be superfluous. The quality of the tools is very indicative of the quality of the data. We would all be far better off being taught to think instead of believe.

  24. Re:No product testing? on Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Do you really believe that even if they had samples of all the players that they would had altered a MARKETING MANDATED ship date and futzed their revenue projections because of some trivial playback issues like they had some kind of business ethics?

  25. Re:Sounds good to me. on Indiana Jones Gets Robbed · · Score: 1

    > make sure there is no jarjar or ewok-like character in the film
    You forgot mechanical sharks and blue fairies.